Mike Lupica - Page Text Content

1: - He was born on May 11, 1952. - He was born in Oneida, New Hampshire.

2: He is an author. He also writes for the New York Times.

3: He began his career covering the New York Knicks on the New York Post. He began at age 23.

4: For more than thirty years, he has written articles, novels, and sports biographies. for the past 15 years, he has also been a TV anchor.

5: His shows are the Mike Lupica Show and The Sports Reporters. He has also been a regular on Good Morning America.

6: He wrote for ESPN The Magazine. He also wrote for Golf Digest.

7: On the radio, he has made frequent appearances on Imus in the Morning since the 1980's. He works along side Don La Greca and precedes the Michael Kay Show.

8: Lupica went to Bishop Guertin High school and he's a graduate of Boston College.

9: Lupica has written in many places. One of them is Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

10: Lupica has a wife named Taylor. He has four children named Christopher, Alex, Zach, and Hannah-Grace.

11: He's also written many adult books. One of them is called Dead Air.

12: Dead Air was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe award in 1987. He won the 2003 Jim Murray award from the National Football Foundation.

13: He has also worked with Bill Parcells and Reggie Jackson on autobiographies.

14: He has written Heat, Miracle on 49th street, The Batboy, Million Dollar Throw, Travel Team, Summer Ball, and Dead Air.

15: The Batboy

16: The Batboy is about a fourteen year old kid named Brian that becomes the Batboy for the Detroit tigers.

17: Brian' dad left him and his mom to play baseball in Japan. Brian sees this Job as a way to bring back his father.

18: Brian's idol, Hank Bishop gets signed by the Detroit Tigers after being banned for using steroids. And an unlikely friendship slowly develops between this man in need of a family and this boy in need of a father.

19: "This presentation contains copyrighted material used under the educational fair use exemption to U.S. copyright law." (Simpson, 70)